Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-27
TIE KEY NOTE.
A PROPOSED CANAL TO WATER
SACRAMENTO COUNTY LANDS.
A Feasible Plan Backed by Com
pany With Coin Its Water
Supply Inexhaustible.

Samuel Hale. Superintendent OF the
Ell Dorado Water and Deep Gravel Mining
Company, is in the city, stopping at the
Capital Hotel He is very much interested
in the boom of Sacramento county. and IS
particularly interested in the views ad-
vanced by Colonel Ed. r. Hamilton, as
published in the RECORD UNION few days
since. He says the company he represents
proposes to bring into Sacramento county
a canal with capacity of 10000 inches,
that will irrigate every foot of land in the
county which lies between the American
and Costumes rivers. This company owns
by purchase the water right of Blair,
Brown & Blair, at the mouth of Weber,
! covering $4,000 inches. They have made
preliminary surveys, and are now actively
ENGAGED IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF canal thirty feet wide on the top and
six feet in depth for the purpose of con-
yeying water to the Sacramento plains. G..
w. Hancock, at the public meeting We'd
nesday evening, said such a canal would
increase the value of the lands in this
county $20,000000. Here is your canal
men sufficient, and money enough to build
it if the company receives sufficient encour-
agement. Mr.. Hale says the large canal
will keep on the highest ground through to
this city, and branches and lateral bitches
will be sent out in every direction until
every acre of this immense tract shall be
under ditch" The red lands, heretofore
the cheapest in the county, being valueless
for grain, will become the most valuable
for fruit. Orchards, vineyards. vegetables,
can be grown on every acre. with the an
nual assurance of an abundant crop. The
mouth of Weber creek, the largest tribu-
! tary of the south fork of the American, is a
FEW MILES ABOVE SALMON FALLS
The proposed canal occupies higher ground
than does that of the Natoma Company,
and the mountain storage capacity of the
E. D. W and d. G. NJ. Co. is so large that
| the canal can be filled to its fullest capacity
the driest season. The Silver Lake reser-
voir allows a storage of water twenty feet
in depth, extending two and a half miles
in length by seven-eighths in width, with a
capacity of 1897, 900 cubic feet. The
cost OF this reservoir was only $4,000, and
blythe expenditure of few thousand more
its capacity can be doubled. This company
drove tunnel sos feet through a mount
ain and
TAPPED ECHO LAKE,
Which has capacity of 100000, 600 cubic
feet. 1t is proposed to raise the dam at the
outlet of this lake and increase its storage
capacity ten-fold. This company has in
vested in water rights, canals, lateral bitches
and reservoirs over 100000, and when
this proposed canal is completed they will
cover the greatest extent of country by any
one corporation in the State. This canal,
besides furnishing water for irrigation,
will furnish power for manufacturing in
| dustries, and for that purpose will be piped
into this city from point where suf-
ficient altitude can be obtained. This com
pany owns a water system covering a
watershed of more than three hundred and
HIty square miles, embracing claims In the
South Fork of the American river, Silver,
Alpine, Wolf, Alder, Mill, Plum and Echo
creeks, aggregating 5000 inches of water,
with reservoir claims on Silver, Echo, Med
ley and Glazier lakes. Nothing in the
State compares in extent with it.
The company which Mr.. Hale represents
embraces some of the heaviest financiers
of San Francisco, and some of the best
banks of that city. Mr.. Hale was on his
way to San Francisco to meet his company,
but member of the Citizens Committee
learning of his presence specially invited
him to remain in the city until to morrow,
in order to explain the plans of his COM
pany before the committee tonight. He
has consented 10 do so.